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Build a Portfolio Website from Your Resume with GitHub Copilot

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Aug 21, 2026

GitHub Copilot desktop app can generate a portfolio website directly from a resume PDF.

“my favorite part of writing the prompt is always to create a clear goal as you said. But on top of that, I love to collaborate with the models.”
Optimizing GitHub Copilot: Better Results, Fewer Tokens

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Aug 21, 2026

GitHub Copilot's 400k context window works best with minimal, targeted information rather than maximum context.

“Our goal isn't to give Copilot the most amount of context possible. It is to give it the smallest amount of information for it to accomplish its task.”
Bring Your Own Model Within the GitHub Copilot App

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Aug 21, 2026

GitHub Copilot now supports external model providers when users exhaust native AI credits

“there are a ton of other options you can do to bring your own model and use that as inference or the brains behind the GitHub Copilot”
Extend GitHub Copilot with Tools and MCP Servers

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Aug 21, 2026

GitHub Copilot can use local tools and MCP servers to act on files and the web

“Copilot is the brain and then these tools, MCPs, and then built-in tools that Copilot has under the surface are the hands.”
llm 0.32.1

Simon Willison · Aug 21, 2026

LLM tool 0.32.1 patches broken installs caused by OpenAI dropping httpx dependency

llm-openrouter 0.7

Simon Willison · Aug 21, 2026

llm-openrouter 0.7 adds Responses API support and three new server-side tools

Stop Making TUIs

Simon Willison · Aug 21, 2026

Coding agents have made building native GUIs cheap enough to replace throwaway CLIs

“If you haven't tried your hand at turning one of your 500 throwaway CLIs into a native app, you're doing yourself a disservice. Go build a native UI. It'll probably change the way you think.”
Quoting Matt Webb

Simon Willison · Aug 21, 2026

Developer used ChatGPT as interactive tutor to learn quaternions, not to write code

“So learning doesn't stop just because I outsource a bunch of thinking to AI. It pushes me to learn more.”